Occupation: Historian Birth: September 5, 1953
Most authoritarians do not surrender power voluntarily..
Unhappy voters thought the anemic economy, Obamacare, the collapse of U.S. foreign policy, the scandals in government, and the incompetent handling o….
Western elites - the beneficiaries of 60 years of peace and prosperity achieved by the sacrifices to defeat fascism and Communism - are unhappy in th….
History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prov….
Entertainers wrongly assume that their fame, money, and influence arise from broad knowledge rather than natural talent, looks, or mastery of a narro….
Apologizing for our past sins may reveal character and for a time lessen anti-Americanism abroad, but if it is done without acknowledging that the si….
It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom...never ..
Illegal immigration is praised only by those who benefit directly from it, whether in the familial sense of inexpensive nannies, cooks, or gardeners;….
Behind every American soldier, dozens of their countrymen tonight sleep soundly — and hundreds more in their shadow abroad will wake up alive and saf….
I think the Democrat Party is taking its cue from the media. When the media has a narrative, whether it's the use of profanity, the Democratic Party ….
Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because foreign ….
After three elections, voters finally caught on that Obama's faults were not in the stars, but in himself. They apparently tired of the usual distrac….
Ignorance and arrogance are a lethal combination. Nowhere do we see that more clearly among writers and performers who pontificate as historians when….
Ancient wisdom: deal in personal trust; your word is your bond; avoid extremes; treat the money you invest for others as something sacred; don't take….
Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want..
Westernization, coupled with globalization, has created an affluent and leisured elite that now gravitates to universities, the media, bureaucracies,….
Behind every liberal philanthropist fortune is a huge capitalist score. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett can afford now to be liberal - an expensive ind….
Stalin and Mao killed over 80 million and did not make omelets despite the broken eggs..
Trump is a symptom of widespread disgust, not the head of a carefully crafted ideological movement with a checklist of issues..
Multiculturalism is a good reminder that when standards are relative, there are no standards at all..
The president who is most slandered as Hitler will probably prove to be the most zealous advocate of democratic government abroad, the staunchest fri….